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“Are you saying that Scott…” he inquired.
“I…if he’s not really working tonight I think I know where he is,” she told them. “There’s this little cabin out on…”
“Sixty-two?” Jake asked.
She nodded and continued, “He’ll go out there for a few days and when he’d come back he wouldn’t be as cruel.”
“He could be going back to relive something, maybe something he did there or since it’s close to where he dumped the bodies…” Walsh suggested.
“Right now, I don’t care; I just know if he’s not working or at home that’s where he is.”
“We’ll fit you with a wire and will be listening,” Ryans stated. “The moment he admits to it we’ll come in.”
“He’d find it before then,” she warned. Anything on her would be easily found in one of his moods. “The only way to get him to admit it is to piss him off completely, which means…”
She stopped trying to regain control of her emotions knowing what was likely to happen if she went to the cabin. Even without confronting him about the murders he wouldn’t be happy about it; he’d be livid.
“No…you’re not putting yourself in his hands to hurt you just for a confession,” Dan argued.
“It’ll be the only way to get an admissible confession Dan,” she countered. “If he’s picked up and at the jail he’ll tell me, but they won’t be able to use it because of spousal privileges; he’ll ask for a lawyer the instant they slap cuffs on him.”
“Then let someone else confront him;I’lldo it but you’re not going to risk your life for them.”
“There is no proof, no evidence which will tie him to the girls. The only way he’ll start again is if I’m dead, and I’d really prefernotto be dead,” she stated, and he looked around seeing the truth in everyone else’s eyes.
“I don’t like it, Liv,” he sighed.
“I don’t either, but I’ll deal,” she said hugging him before turning back to the detectives. “How do I confront him without tipping him off that you’re listening in though? If I tell him the cops came to talk to me he won’t say anything, he’ll just come after me.”
“We’re releasing a statement to the press that we’re reopening the case because of new evidence. We included photos of the girls along with where they were found,” Ryans stated.
“The times of the murders along with where and the fact that there haven’t been any more since he’s started coming after me leads me to be suspicious and confronting him,” she said understanding their thoughts. “When is it going to play?”
“The first airing was twenty minutes ago, and they’re going to replay it at the end of the news cast too,” Walsh answered.
“What are we going to do about the wire?” Jake questioned.
“Do you have anything extra on your key ring?” Ryans asked her.
“Yeah,” she said with a slight grimace pulling them out of her bag.
“We can slip a wire onto it, and he’ll never notice,” he stated looking them over. “Let us get it set up and then we can drive you out there.”
“There’s a single lane gravel path leading up to the cabin. He’ll notice vehicles coming up.”
“We’ll have our guys move in then give you the light to go to the cabin,” Walsh told her. “We’ll keep it off the radios in case he has one with him. We’ll use a different channel than we typically do and won’t mention any names or places; he won’t know we’re there.”
“Okay,” she said. “Just give me a couple minutes please…”
“Take as long as you need Olivia,” Jake stated watching her walk out of the room. He looked around the group and asked them, “How long have you known?”
“About five minutes longer than Captain Worth,” Dan answered shaking his head. “Why didn’t we see it?”
“She was incredibly careful,” Teri told them. “She probably denied it even after you asked her about it, didn’t she?”
“Yeah…even finding the marks on her back didn’t convince her to tell us,” Jess added.
“We might not have ever known if Will hadn’t mentioned the supposed car accident the weekend of her birthday,” Dan admitted looking for him. “Where’d he go?”
